Live data from Hacker News

Whistleblower warns Postal Service mail ballot system has catastrophic problems

cbsnews.com

41–50 of 346 posts

Re: Whistleblower warns Postal Service mail ballot system has catastrophic problems

#41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your vague handwavey manner of writing sounds very presidential.

It's actually very specific. Look up the previous abuses of the US Postal Inspections Bureau and you will see exactly what I mean and why I've said it the way I've said it.

“It’s very specific”

“Just look up vague abuses that I’m claiming happened with no evidence”

Re: Whistleblower warns Postal Service mail ballot system has catastrophic problems

#42

[flagged]

That's just fear mongering. Absentee voting by mail has been a thing for centuries. Attempting to limit it to people who are unable to vote in person doesn't do anything to make it more secure, and is a very weak control. It's not like they're going to check up on every single person who claims to have a specific reason they can't get to the polls. Beyond that, no-excuse absentee ballots have been a thing in many sta…

Agreed. I can't even recall any point in my life when an allegation of fraud was made before Trump came on the scene. I've seen requests for recounts when the margins were close, but never an allegation of malicious intent.

Re: Whistleblower warns Postal Service mail ballot system has catastrophic problems

#43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's actually very specific. Look up the previous abuses of the US Postal Inspections Bureau and you will see exactly what I mean and why I've said it the way I've said it.

“It’s very specific” “Just look up vague abuses that I’m claiming happened with no evidence”

>https://www.yahoo.com/news/the-postal-service-is-running-a-r...

Here is one instance among many.

Re: Whistleblower warns Postal Service mail ballot system has catastrophic problems

#44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your vague handwavey manner of writing sounds very presidential.

It's actually very specific. Look up the previous abuses of the US Postal Inspections Bureau and you will see exactly what I mean and why I've said it the way I've said it.

"Specific" would involve some sort of detail about what these abuses were, or when they happened, or something beyond just "previous abuses of the US Postal Inspections Bureau."

Re: Whistleblower warns Postal Service mail ballot system has catastrophic problems

#46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's actually very specific. Look up the previous abuses of the US Postal Inspections Bureau and you will see exactly what I mean and why I've said it the way I've said it.

"Specific" would involve some sort of detail about what these abuses were, or when they happened, or something beyond just "previous abuses of the US Postal Inspections Bureau."

[flagged]

Re: Whistleblower warns Postal Service mail ballot system has catastrophic problems

#49
Regardless what anyone thinks about the security of voting in the US. I'd hope that they could see how massively upending multiple states' voting systems 2 months before the midterms is a really bad idea. Even with the best intentions, implementing such a sweeping untested change so rapidly is a horrible idea.

(No, I don't support it regardless, but surely even if you do you could recognize that the timeframe is way too short).

Post reply on HN